Half a million polygons. Nice, our pc will be blown. And it will freeze too much. And i'm not a pro to make low poly model.
That is nothing, almost any GPU will do 6 000 000 just fine and any decent one does 20 000 000, as long as you can keep UV mapping optimized and number of textures/shaders low as drawcalls will kill CPU way before polygons will cause issue with a modern GPU in this game. CTRL-F twice, check drawcalls with train and without, try to stay below 1000 or so as maximum for modern CPU is 4000 total, includes map and everything on full details (dynamic reflections on low), so you really don't want too high as maps are usually around 3000 tops, then you want wagons etc. too. Physics are easy thing, polygons are no problem, but textures/UV maps there is what kills performance on maps and vehicles. With vehicles you have skins and all layers, so it adds up really fast.
This is good Nice big passenger trains. Here's to hoping chris_lucas gets in on this train craze! (but then he has much bigger projects so, I'll just have to remain hopeful. Also, I'd like to see different skins for the Russian train, such as metro train skins and prison train skins (both in Russian).
Hi, I love the amount of progress on the SD70, as for the skins, while I love the non-lettered ones, may I also suggest having real railroad skins, e.g. SP, UP, BNSF, SF, etc? Those would be nice to see in addition to the ones you've already made.
All of us would love to see skins like this, but unfortunately DMCA must be enforced for it to be on the repository as well as avoid any possible future copyright problems. Although some parodies of official ones would be both funny and look realistic
That's a fair compromise, may I suggest "Sufferin' Pacific" for the Southern Pacific. I have relatives who worked for SP and that was an inside joke among the company...
I will make diferent color and if you want you can make different skins for it. But I'm not a very pro in UV mapping so could be some glitches. --- Post updated --- What do you think about this? Will it have success?) But we need tunnels)
That is very good, tunnels are in @bob.blunderton's coming city map, that train would probably fit there much better than helicopter which I have been flying on those tunnels
@bob.blunderton's new map has subway lines with tunnels in it! I think that one will fit nicely with that map
Ok so, now i'm converting it, I bought this train.so we will not have problems with licence. (i hope )
